Requirements

Duties & Responsibilities

Maintaining a good understanding of the advances in
the field of climate change adaptation, with particular attention to the
relevant technological, operational, institutional and other innovations and
best practices at the local, national and global level, the responsibilities
include (but are not limited to) the following:

A.Provide
technical advice for ensuring, across the International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) country project Portfolio-Nepal, effective implementation of
strategies for climate change adaptation, and alignment with national
activities and policies on climate change adaptation/resilient;

B.Assess and ensure
effective coordination and collaborative ownership of stakeholders on climate
change initiatives and activities, at all levels, particularly within ASHA
Project provinces, districts and Rural Municipalities/Municipalities;

C.Assess and
explore opportunities and advise on the adoption of climate-smart planning in
on-going and future International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD)
activities;

D.Assess the
current status, develop and maintain strategic partnerships and promote
networking with IFAD project portfolio stakeholders in the area of climate
change adaptation, mitigation and capacity development;

E.Assist ASHA project
coordination unit (PCU) for effective climate adaptive/resilient planning and implementation
of the Project, through an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach;

F.Work in
close coordination with ASHA thematic specialists to ensure planning, intervention
processes, outputs, and outcomes that are climate adaptive/resilient and/or
climate proofing, paying close attention to preventing mal-adaptation;

G.Support and
capacitate the province, district and municipal level environment and climate
change officials and service providers in the implementation of climate adaptive
and/or climate proofing activities;

H.Facilitate Rural
Municipalities/Municipalities on assessing the climate change impacts,
community needs and integrate them in their annual planning process,

·Assess and regularly revise and/or update sub-watershed
assessment reports and Local Adaptation Plan for Actions (LAPAs) on the basis
on climate change impacts, community demand and access/demand of new tools and
technologies, assess and update enhance LAPA Manual, climate change tool box,
and other project manuals and guidelines as required,

·Support
in determination of additionality and cost-efficiency of adaptation measures (as
outlined under sub-components 2.1 and 2.2 of the project), namely: profitable
production and climate change community infrastructure activities: livelihoods
interventions; identified by LAPAs.

·Coordination
and collaboration with Technical Advisory Group (TAG) and Climate Research Institutions
like Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC) for research, technology and
innovative actions.

J.Conduct outreach with local, provincial and national actors
in adaptation, including other IFAD funded projects, to identify synergies and
opportunities of collaboration in terms of the project outcomes including
knowledge management. Lessons from other ongoing projects should also be
captured to ensure the new initiative takes into account during the implementation
phase.

K.Monitor
climate change adaptation, mal-adaptation and mitigation issues and support
projects to overcome with those issues;

L.Provide
technical support on environment and climate change issues during Joint
Supervision Support, and participate on Supervision Missions when required;

M.Consider the key
drivers of climate change and environmental degradation, including but not
limited to, demand, consumption, and waste management, while providing support
to the project team to facilitate strengthening smallholders’ climate
adaptation capacity, especially through promotion of environmentally smart and
resource efficient tools and technologies, at all levels (farmer to PCU);

O.Assist planning and
MEAL unit in a timely manner, to prepare annual work plan and budget (AWPB),
monthly plan, and trimester performance reports indicating the achievement of
work plan targets and corresponding expenditures.

P.Support
Knowledge Management (KM) Officers of IFAD supported projects in Nepal to
establish and manage a Community/Forum of Practice for knowledge sharing on
climate change adaptation across the IFAD portfolio, and support the
organization in training and workshops for climate change adaptation knowledge
dissemination to all stakeholders;

Q.Work closely
in collaboration with the IFAD Country Programme technical experts,
particularly with knowledge management specialists, to identify climate-smart
innovations, and disseminate information and knowledge to relevant
stakeholders;

S.Provide
technical advice to update and audit all IFAD investments in Nepal in terms of
climate change adaptation and provide technical advice accordingly;

T.Support in the
assessment of national as well as project policies and processes on climate
change adaptation, providing recommendations to improve project performance,
and to make interventions practical and effective;

U.Develop ToRs of study/research
together with MEAL and other thematic specialists and closely supervise and
timely guide the selected service provider,

V.Coordinate/collaborate
PCU to develop climate resilient knowledge and promotional materials to present
in different national and international forums;

W.Assist PCU to
contribute on local to national level policies, manuals, guidelines related to
climate change adaptation;

X.Support PCU to
finalize and execute the exit strategy;

Y.Assess the required
documents for preparing periodic and project completion report as well as assist
PCU to develop/finalize those with close coordination with MEAL team;

Z.Support/facilitate the
PCU in assessing the Annual Outcome Survey (AOS) of the project;

·At
least 7 years of professional experience in environment and natural resource
management and Forestry including 3 years' experience in the senior level in
climate change adaptation and mitigation programmes,

·Excellent
knowledge of local, national, and global innovations in the field of climate
change adaptation and mitigation;

·Familiarity
with GIS, sub-watershed and landscape level planning and analysis;

·Extensive
experience in institutional strengthening and participatory processes at the
smallholder level;

·Proficiency in computer, information and communication
technology;

·Fluency in written and spoken in English.

To Apply:

The Applicants need to submit their application & updated Curriculum Vitae (CV) by 21st February, 2020 (Falgun 9, 2076) to the following email address by mentioning applied job position in the subject line: asha@abasarnepal.com or by post on mentioned address below. Detailed ToR, qualification and experiences can be downloaded from www.abasarnepal.com.